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—A very perfect specimen of the skull and horns 
of the large elk (Cervus giganteus or hibernicus ), 
found fossil in Ireland and in the Isle of Man;— 
the skull of the Caledonian ox (Bos Taurus , var. 
gigantea), nearly allied to the European domes¬ 
ticated ox:—bones in the osseous breccia of 
Gibraltar and the coast of Dalmatia. 
In Cases 7—10 is placed an interesting suite 
of osseous remains from the Kirkdale cave in 
Yorkshire, presented by W. Salmond, Esq. 
Of the scarce remains of birds, there are two 
specimens in this collection from Oeningen and 
the plaster-quarries of Paris. 
Among the bones of the class of reptiles (in 
the Cases opposite the Fire-place), the most in¬ 
teresting are those of several species of Ich¬ 
thyosaurus, a genus of the order of Lizards 
(SauriJ, to which we have given that name on 
account of its having been first mistaken for a 
fish by Chapman and others. Particularly re¬ 
markable are the carpal bones of the foot of 
Ichthyosaurus immanis , the largest species we 
are acquainted with, from the blue lias of Lyme 
Regis, and Baththe bones of another huge 
lizard belonging to a genus intermediate between 
the Monitor and Guana, from Maastricht;--- 
skeleton of an animal of the salamandrine order 
(BatrachidesJ , formerly mistaken for human*. 
* Scheuchzer’s homo diluvii testis et tlieoscopos ! Tiguri. 1726. 
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ROOM IX. 
Nat. Hist. 
